Choose one person in the photograph to focus on. Consider the questions below as you look at the image. Write your responses down, making a descriptive list.
What is this person thinking?
If this person were to speak, what might he or she say?
How would the person sound? Is it a high-pitched voice? Quiet or loud? Hesitant or excited?
How does the person feel? Is he or she afraid? Happy? Hungry? Cold?
Now write a paragraph in the voice of this person. Write in first person and capture the person’s personality.
- Four boys, New York, Helen Levitt, 1940
http://masters-of-photography.com/L/levitt/levitt_4boys_full.html- Family in the desert, Refugees in the Korem Camp, Sebastio Salgado, 1984
http://masters-of-photography.com/S/salgado/salgado_covers_full.html- Woman with three children, Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936
http://masters-of-photography.com/L/lange/lange_migrant_mother_full.html